Vehicle Repair & MOT: business succession in the UK

Name: Vehicle Repair & MOT business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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9,577 UK vehicle repair & MOT companies — 28.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

4.1 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured33,744

Director aged 60+9,577

Exposure rate28.4%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

33,744

Companies measured

9,577

With a director 60+

3,228

With a director 70+

28.4%

Exposure rate

Of the 9,577 with a director over 60, 1,306 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vehicle Repair & MOT by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Wales	1,366	452	33.1%
South West	3,156	1,012	32.1%
South East	4,910	1,502	30.6%
North East	1,049	321	30.6%
Scotland	2,190	667	30.5%
North West	3,919	1,150	29.3%
East of England	3,310	971	29.3%
East Midlands	2,517	673	26.7%
Northern Ireland	473	125	26.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	3,025	795	26.3%
West Midlands	3,458	888	25.7%
London	4,355	1,014	23.3%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Automotive pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Automotive →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Vehicle Repair & MOT: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/auto-repair/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.